Here’s the interview everyone’s been waiting for: Nadya Suleman, the Octuplets’ mom went straight from the hospital to an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry:

The mother of octuplets born last week in Bellflower told NBC News she wanted to have a "huge family" because she longed for personal connections she felt she lacked in her childhood.

"I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I — I really lacked, I believe, growing up," Nadya Suleman said in an interview today with NBC’s Ann Curry. "Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn’t functional. It was pretty — pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn’t?"